iphone deleting emails automatically after two days...why?

Any idea of how to do this with Hotmail (which just changed to Outlook in March 2013)? It doesn't have the steps (the tabs) you went through. I'm having the same problem of deleting on the iPhone 4S and having the messages deleted on the server. I tried setting up the Hotmail account as "other" (POP3), but then it kept reloading the inbox so I'd constantly have a full inbox. Thanks in advance.

Open your mail account and click on "mail" then "preferances" then "accounts" then choose your "hotmail account" then "advanced" then make sure the "remove from server box is not checked" this will keep your emails from automatically being sent to your deleted messages folder on your IOS device. Hope this helps it took care of the problem for me..

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Thanks! I'm hoping this works as it's my last option! fingers crossed. Thanks. I wonder if I have to delete account on laptop too and re-add? nonetheless, I'll try that too if this doesn't work. Thanks! D

Found a solution and all of my emails that had been disappearing came back!

Tap settings

Tap mail, contacts, calendars

Then the account at the top (should have your email next to it)

Tap mail days to sync

Tap No Limit.

Hope this works out for you all. Have a wonderful day!

Maliah

and why you don't just post them here?!! I'm facing the same problem 😟

Hi Aymanala,

I was having the same issue, and this is one of the problems that can fix your issue besides others. I hope it works for you, as i know how much frustrating it was after losing the emails off the servers. so to resolve the issue only if your using Outlook Express, or you can use the instruction to find the same settings in other mailing softwares that you are using other then Outlook for ex: Thunderbird...etc.

On your computer open outlook - go in to your Account Settings ---> E-mail ---> select your email in the box ---> click Change ---> on the bottom you will see More Setting... click on it ---> go to Advanced tab ---> on the bottom you will see Delivery ---> Click the box that says "Leave a copy of message on the server" and the rest of the boxes leave it blank ---> click OK and then Finish. Send yourself a test email to insure it works. Also follow these steps tap Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars --> in the Accounts at the top you should see your email, tap the email and at the bottom of the page you should see Mail Days to Syns, select No Limit.

Note: for Outlook 2010 and over your account settings is under "File".

Hope this works. Have a great day

Finally I fond the solution,

The problem is from the Hotmail account. All the old emails have been automatically moved to the POP box.

When you singed in to your Hotmail account, click on the POP box and then select all the Emails and then move them back to the inbox folder.

Know you can check your iPhone and find all of your emails in the inbox folder.

Mohammed

Hi Shoota (or any other helpful person!)

I'm hoping you'll be able to help me. I have a pop account set up on my mac, iPhone and iPad. All are set up to never delete off server then I remove manually when I want to get rid of them. My server still has a couple of GBs of free space, and my phone and iPad have identical settings. Even when I delete from the server emails remain on all devices. I have no problems at all with my iPad, the emails stay on there until I delete them off. My phone is giving me nightmares though. When there are 224 emails in the box, when I receive the next email then it deletes the last email off the end. I only can ever have a total of 224 emails. I still have about 20GB of free space on my phone. I have been to 2 separate Apple stores and spent time with 2 "Genius" people, who have checked all the settings and they are the same. The second time I went their solution was to format the the entire phone and start again, they advised against reloading the backup as the error could have been in the data. I have done this and still have the same problem. I have also changed my ISP since then (was a pre-planned move) and I still have the same problem. Is there a setting somewhere that no one can tell me about that would limit the number of emails I can keep in my inbox that I am not aware of? I can't think of anything else it could be.

OMG, thank you!!!!!!!!!

Thought I was going crazy when msgs disappeared.

Hello everyone, this post is quite old (2011) but if you still dont know or if somebody is internet searching like I was at first and happen apon this then I have the solution. Did you happen to plug it into a computer/xbox?(I plugged itinto my xbox?) not to long before you noticed them missing? Well I looked it up and saw no solution so I went to settings, go under the mail,calenders, contacts section, press "Fetch new data" then change the icloud mail option from "grab" or pull or whatever to "fetch" and then check your mail... For me I wanted my sent messages back because I still had my inboxed mail, over 1,000 mails (99.9% spam) and of course none of my sent mail was spam so I wanted to save most if not all of it, plus email addresses I did not want to loose. I was confused, but anyway I still had it plugged into my xbox and it says no mail then suddenly at the bottom I see "downloading 72 of (some hundred)", then more and more and about 15-30 seconds later the number ran right up and then they were all back suddenly? Weird because I had plugged it into here before? I hadnt changed anything? Oh well, its fixed now so hopefully even if this helps one person it wont be a waste of time and thumb power lol. Good luck friends.

I Just tried this not sure if it works yet

go to mail contacts calendar

go to mail

then go to exchange mail contacts calendar

Then. Mail days to sync

This definitely works, it even brought back my old deleted e mails

Hi guys,

I've been having the same problem for years and nobody can help me. My husband thinks I'm crazy. I work in:

Apple Mail + 4 Gmail paid accounts + iPhone 5 with iOS 10.2.

I've been losing mails since ages. In fact, sometimes, when I click on an old client folder, I see e.g. 23 messages in there, and within seconds they all disappear.

I think my problem occurred a couple of years ago, when I switched from POP to IMAP.

Unfortunately, the "Leave a copy on the server" solution does not work me. I've called GMAIL support, and they can't help me because they need to know which exact message was deleted, when it was deleted etc. and obviously this is not possible, since I don't really remember which old messages are being deleted.

After reading some forum posts, I've completely deleted all my email accounts from my iPhone.

Please, please help me!

thank you

ev

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